Cooling age record of domal uplift in the core of the Higher Himalayan Crystallines (HHC), southwest Zanskar, India

Proceedings of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Earth and Planetary Sciences

Volumn 106, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 169-179

  Sorkhabi, Rasoul B ^a   Jain, Arvind K ^b   Itaya, Tetsumaru ^c   Fukui, Shiro ^d   Lal, Nand ^a   Kumar, Ashok ^b  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ROORKEE   (India)

^c OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^d KURUKSHETRA UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Domal uplift; Himalayan metamorphism; The himalaya; Thermochronology; Zanskar

Indexed keywords

COOLING; FISSION TRACK ANALYSIS; OROGENESIS; POTASSIUM/ARGON DATING; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; UPLIFT;

INDIA, HIMALAYAS, ZANSKAR RANGE;

EID: 0031430430     PISSN: 02534126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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